In the view of the industry, Cocoa Puffs, Popsicles and fake "fruit" snacks are all perfectly acceptable to market to the kindergarten set -- even though foods like that are helping fuel an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and other diet-related diseases.

Popsicles are an easy and affordable way to turn things you probably already have in your kitchen into a fun dessert, and there are exactly one million different ways to make them good thing it's summer and I had time to count.

I found, among ice-cream sandwiches and Popsicles, a three foot long iguana, a bearded dragon, a Tupperware container filled with mice, another containing a rat that hadn't quite been killed after being offered to and rejected by a Burmese python, and myriad freezer burned anomalies which no doubt still inhabit that freezer.